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| Azad allays fears of NC, assures CM of his unstinted support | | Rendering Congress Irrelevant | | Neha
Jammu, May 3: Union Health Minister and former J&K Chief Minister and JKPCC president Ghulam Nabi Azad, who is heading a group of dissidents, including a couple of Ministers and about half a dozen MLAs and MLCs, has, it seems, made up his mind to destroy the Congress party in Jammu and Kashmir or render it ineffective and unreal in the State for all practical purposes. How else should one interpret the unstinted support he on Wednesday at Devsar, Kulgam (Kashmir), offered to NC president and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah? This was not for the first time that Azad extended his full support to Omar Abdullah. He has been doing so for quite sometime now much to the chagrin of majority of the Congress leaders and workers. One can understand why he is against JKPCC chief Saif-ud-Din Soz but one fails to understand as to why he wants to render the Congress party weak in the State - a party that has given him too much.
It's true that Azad asked the NC and Omar Abdullah not to discriminate between the NC and the Congress Ministers and between the constituencies represented by the NC, Congress and other political outfits. But it's also true that he made it loud and clear that Omar Abdullah would rule the State during the remaining period as well, as the Congress believes that his continuation as Chief Minister is needed for the political "stability" in the State. "We do not want change after every two years or every three years. We do not believe in that kind of politics where Chief Minister changes after three years. We want the Chief Minister to be there for at least six years and we have decided that the NC's Chief Minister will be there for six years," he, in fact, said. By saying that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is needed for ensuring political stability in the State, Azad only gave the people to understand that the Congress leadership in the State is just incompetent and incapable of maintaining political instability in the State. Indeed, he snubbed the votaries of rotational Chief Minister-ship in the party.
Azad also said that it is incumbent upon the parties like the NC and the PDP not to act in a fashion that weakens the Congress position in Kashmir as well as Jammu saying that the weak Congress in Kashmir and Jammu would mean the rise of a situation under which the Hurriyat and similar other formations would gain more strength in the Valley and the BJP and RSS in Jammu with the NC and the PDP having no other option but to share power with them. He asked: Are the NC and the PDP prepared for such an eventuality? "If the Congress is weakened in the Jammu division, then either of the two regional parties - the NC or the PDP - will have to tie up with the BJP and RSS to form Government and if the Congress party is weakened in Kashmir, then some pro-Pakistan party may win (in the Valley)," he, in effect, said and asked the NC and PDP leadership if they "then would be ready to go along with them". He also asked if the NC and the PDP are ready for joining hands with and sharing power with the BJP and the RSS.
It is clear from what he said that he considers the Kashmir-based pro-Pakistan parties like the Hurriyat Conference, BJP and the RSS as the two sides of one and the same coin. It is for the BJP and the RSS to give an appropriate reaction to what Azad said in this regard. It is also clear from what he said that he is not prepared to accept the fact that the association of the Congress party with the NC has only helped the latter and weakened the party to which he himself belongs.
The very fact that Azad again and again reiterated his support to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and the NC that he leads was an indication that he and the NC leadership might have struck a deal to further weaken the position and authority of the JKPCC chief whose views on the Chief Minister and other NC leaders, including NC additional general secretary Mustafa Kamaal, are totally different. This was not something surprising. What was surprising was that Azad did not utter a single word against the CM and his uncle who have unleashed a no-holds-barred vilification campaign against the State Congress leaders, including Azad himself, and New Delhi and, instead, offered fullest possible cooperation to Omar Abdullah. It is this that should leave none in any doubt that some insidious influence is at work to defeat those opposed to the NC by an alliance between Azad and some top-ranking NC leaders, including Omar Abdullah. |
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